New York TimesA 40-foot banner was unfurled inside the central rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Wednesday evening.. . . READ MORE
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Tottenham Corner
Running the words “memory, narrative, perception, artist statement” into an Internet browser unleashes a veritable torrent of results. Take this: “I am interested in narrative, memory and the influence of place upon our perception of these topics.” And this: “Most of...
Mark Bradford Named LA MoCA Trustee
Mark Bradford joins the ranks of the museum’s other big-name creative trustees, including Barbara Kruger, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Catherine Opie.
Mara McCarthy wins Frieze Award
Frieze London Art Fair has awarded Mara McCarthy of the Box, their annual Stand Prize. The award of 10,000 pounds was for her presentation of Barbara T. Smith’s Xerox works from 1965–68. Smith, who was rejected by the now-legendary print house Gemini G.E.L.,...
Paul McCarthy Inserts Butt Plug in Paris — Gets Slapped
BBC A huge, green, inflatable sculpture on a famous Paris square has raised a storm for its resemblance to a sex toy, with the artist attacked in the street.. . . READ MORE
“Sponsored Video”
Caribbean Dreams
Here's a little fun—a whiskey dream starring Jude Law and Giancarlo Gianini, shot for Johnnie Walker Blue Label. It opens aboard an antique yacht in the British Virgin Islands, and follows Jude Law down urban alleyways that reek of another century. He's painting...
Some Assembly Required
Upsize, supersize, largesize, megasize—there are most likely a dozen more of these contemporarily fabricated verbs that are necessitated by our want/need to consume at the current unprecedented rates. The commerce-based art world, not unlike the modern fast-food...
This Issue’s Cover
Our September/October cover is a portrait of Nicholas Bowers, the right-hand man for Shepard Fairey. Bowers goes where Fairey goes. Read about Bowers and his experience with Fairey and his own art, by Shelley Leopold.
Neoist Vandalizes Jeff Koons Retrospective
Hyperallergic A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing his own blood in the shape of an X and signing the name Monty Cantsin underneath. . . READ MORE
Tracey Emin’s filthy Bed sells for £2.2m at Christie’s in London
BBC The 1998 work features an unmade bed and a floor littered with empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and condoms. The work, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize, had been put up for sale by millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi who bought it for...
Incognito: JR, Banksy, Fairey
Remaining anonymous coupled with becoming a globally recognized figure is no easy feat; it seems almost a requirement of celebrity status that the entire world know your name and face. The crux of what has catapulted some into the spotlight also necessitates a need...
Jeff Koons Mega Mansion Construction Annoys Neighbors
New York Post Art star Jeff Koons triumphantly opened a massive retrospective at the Whitney this week, the museum’s last before it moves downtown.But less than 10 blocks away, he’s undertaking another huge project that’s been years in the making: combining two Upper...
Jeffrey Deitch to team up with Grammy Museum
Wall Street JournalThe Los Angeles-basedGrammy Museum is beginning to raise money for a traveling EDM exhibit that it plans to curate in partnership with art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, the former head of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where he curated a sweeping...
Vengeful Landlord Triples Rent on Santa Monica Museum of Art
Curbed LAEveryone knows by now that rents across Los Angeles are shooting up wildly, but the story with the nonprofit Santa Monica Museum of Art at Bergamot Art Stationis something else altogether:. . . READ MORE
CIA facial software uncovers the artist Francis Bacon – in drag
The GuardianA photograph in a Guardian article about Soho photographer John Deakin has been revealed as a picture of artist Francis Bacon in drag. However, there is still a cleavage issue ….. . . READ MORE
Whitney’s Cliteracy Rate to be Tested
The GuardianSophia Wallace is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist and photographer. Through mixed media, images and video, her work looks at constructions of gender, race and sex. Her most recent work, CLITERACY, was a multimedia project that included street art,...
Lost Warhol artwork rescued from crumbling floppy disks
The Telegraph A team of artists, computer experts and archivists have discovered dozens of previously unknown experimental artworks by Andy Warhol which have been gathering dust on ageing floppy disks since 1985. . . READ MORE
Ovitz, Shepard Fairey among creditors in Rubenstein Gallery bankruptcy
Los Angeles TimesMike Kelley's "Deodorized Central Mass With Satellites," 1991-99, mixed media, shown at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in November 2012. (Perry Rubenstein Gallery) The list of creditors in a recent bankruptcy filing for the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Los...
